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Lighting on drawing

Posted by
Kylo Ren
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Mar 14 2013
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241 views

So, dont focus on the badly drawn miru, but on the lighting. First time Ive tried this and its pretty basic, but I tried to add lighting to the mask by using different shades of green and a bit of white on the forehead. Its meant to look cartoony so thats why there are loads of black out lines. Do you guys think I pulled this off okay for a first attempt?

I was always going to for my avatars, but just for future drawings. Yes I know my avs are basic, but its helped me get a lot better at this stuff if you look along the list from latest to newest. Just experimenting and stuff.

Nice. I use Gimp as well most of the time. If I were shading this in gimp, I would prebably color select the main color for whatever chunk of the mask, then use the Blend tool and make one color the primary color for that section, the other a darker shade, and angle it howevr you want. Repeat for inner mouthpiece. Of course, there are better ways to do this, but this is a faster way (And easierto explain).

For the Reflective Spot, It's better to use the Dodge tool a couple times to lighten it, instead of using white..